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Jeannie (Jay) Marschall 🍇🫐🍏🍋🍊🍓 @jeanniemarschall.bsky.social · 3h

LOOK! I big lit nerd! Why is book?? How is plot?? What its horror?? Ask me question! Tell me thoughts! 📚 #booksky #amreading

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mere rain @mererain.bsky.social · 6h

OCTOBER RECS DAY 5 In case yesterday's recs were too intense, here is some horror that is also funny and has likable characters. Also @stevewestenra.bsky.social has a sale via itchio. (I thought @lormaggot.ca had something on sale but I forget where) steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil...

The Flesh of the Sea is gooey ocean horror by Lor Gislason and Shelley Lavigne. The cover is pink and purple and shows a boat splashing

The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra
cover is red and shows a television (or maybe a radio? an old skool device ok) between two trees

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Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd @mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · 9h

#WIPSnips 'wall' You know I'm always going to leap at a chance to share a Horus snip 😂 from The Hour of the Day, TW vol 5 books.bookfunnel.com/TippingWorld...

It was always weird to move while see-through; your sense of touch was deadened like you were wrapped up in layers of blankets so you kind of bounced around and it was hard to tell if you were touching things at all or clinging to them way too hard. That made it just no fun at all to climb over that big tall pile of dirt and down the other side.
Wasn’t no other choice, though: there was no question of using his Vision. You couldn’t when you went see-through. Your Sight felt too acute, like your senses was naked. Exposed to the outer world and under assault.
He’d had the incredibly unsettling thought that he wasn’t invisible but had actually unmade himself, so’s all that was left was memories and will. Would explain why everyone who tried it about peed their pants, and why it hurt so much to come back from it. It was the sort of thought that did a body no good, especially not now when he was going to have to stay like this for hours.
Took forever to get down the far face of the wall, which was twice as tall and didn’t have ladders built into it. The hard-packed dirt came apart in his grip while he climbed. Been raining on and off since spring arrived, and the regulars were hard-pressed to keep the wall in shape. One big storm in a spot where they didn’t watch the wall so careful and their enemies could walk onto their soil.
He’d thought to stop in the deep trench at the foot of the wall and take a breather, but there was a layer of sticky mud along its bottom and it smelled like pee. Probably it was pee, from the guys stuck with long watches on the wall above as couldn’t get a toilet break pissing onto enemy soil. He didn’t want to sit down in it however his arms shook.

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Joanna Maciejewska @authorjmac.bsky.social · 9h

On Friday, I seriously broke my website, so I spent my weekend troubleshooting and didn’t have a chance to post the unboxing video, but here it is! Special editions of Sanguine Scenario arrived!

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Fantasy-Faction @fantasyfaction.bsky.social · 11h

Today our judges review @hollytinsl3y.bsky.social's The Hallows, finalist for this year's Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off! - JI 🐉 fantasy-faction.com/2026/spfbo-f... #booksky 💙📚🪐 #SPFBO #SPFBOreviews #noir #urbanfantasy #gaslamp (cc: @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social)

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Katherine "Kat" Silva @katsilvaauthor.bsky.social · 11h

When I originally announced the cover for Dichotomy, my lovely friend, @rebecca-rowland.bsky.social was the first one to message and ask to read it. I cannot thank her enough for this amazing blurb and for her time and enthusiasm. 🖤

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Tru Skies @trudieskies.readindiefantasy.com · 18h

I'm petty, I'll block anyone that shares anything vaguely Harry Potter related. I unfollowed someone on Goodreads cos it showed them reading one of the books. Get the fuck outta here.

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thirdmonti.bsky.social @thirdmonti.bsky.social · 11h

#WIPSnips 05 10 2026 ‘Wall’ From “To Save The Sun” Part I

I punched the wall in response once. Twice. A third time, and on until my knuckles bled.

-“Kaitani, what did that guy do to you?” R’Otem-i asked.

“What?”

-“A Wanderer’s eyes are not just for show; you may have been rushing me but I saw you look his way and him turn away deliberately. What did he do to you?” R’Otem-i’s tone changed to seriousness.

“I told you I was taën; when there was still a prince it was the taën’s duty to sentence an accused person with a punishment. The prince liked violence, but I did not want my ‘friend’ to be hurt, so I told the prince the punishment I chose and that I would take it by proxy.”

-“Is that why your back is scarred?”

“Yes,” I said through gritted teeth. “And after that, Taeiyo became afraid of the power I had as taën and didn’t want to see me again. He avoids me, avoids looking at me, and it enrages me still that someone I cared about so deeply left me like that after I did what I could to spare him.”

-“You loved him, didn’t you?” R’Otem-i perceived correctly. And the question was more rhetorical than one that needed an answer, but I nodded affirmation regardless. I did love Taeiyo. I hadn’t ever had the chance to understand the feelings for what they were but I knew heart sickness and betrayal felt like a chasm in my being.

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#WIPSnips - "Wall" From The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle! D : In which Tyler finds an oddly shaped clue! On sale now for Hallowe'en: books2read.com/u/boB9YL And here!: steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil...

"What I can only assume is the room at the bottom of those stairs is a swathe of black on screen seven. It’s not just that the room is dark, either. It’s like the blackness is seething with bugs, bristling with the hair of something too big for the space. Only the corners are empty, glowing an eerie blue like Gene’s set up a blacklight.
And then the blackness moves.
I bolt all the way to the door, gripping the sides of the frame as what could be a giant-ass cat curves its back against the confines of the wall, like one of Josh’s rats moving in its sleep. The shot seems to defy physics—I can’t tell if whatever that animal is takes up the whole room, or if the camera is somehow oriented inside a tiny box filming something smaller. I can’t tell what’s wall and what’s ceiling. As the thing settles, I glimpse a nugget of leg or knee. The limb is spindly, scarily narrow for something the animal’s size, like a wolf on stilts, like the folded legs of a dead spider." - The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 13h

I have a horrible feeling I missed replying to someone, but I don't remember who or what or why, so if this is you I'm sorry and please let me know (this is, of course, a perennial anxiety)> D :

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The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle is still #onsale for October! Going to try and share something every day and see if . . . actually promoting my work helps people know it exists (wild, I know) 😅 Queer horror, on sale!: books2read.com/u/boB9YL steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil... #indiehorror #booksky

"I glance back at the blackened windows of the hotel office. Inside, an electronic device blinks off-on-off-on like a flickering modem light. Something about this struggling machine on an island technologically trapped in the 1850s compels me. I stand in front of the window, press my palm to the glass. I stare inside, and though I can’t place why, for only a moment, it’s like someone’s staring back. Like the machine is an eye—blinking, assessing, watching.
The breeze ripples against Three Wolf Moon. It could be Echo Island’s breath, a deep exhale after years holding it all in." - The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle

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Lauren C. Teffeau @teffeau.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Found out last night my desertpunk fantasy A Hunger with No Name from @utampapress.bsky.social is a New Mexico Book Awards Winner for Best Fantasy Novel!

Picture of the screen at the 2026 NM Book Awards banquet, featuring Lisa McCoy announcing the winner of Best Fantasy Novel -- A Hunger with No Name by Lauren C. Teffeau, University of Tampa Press. Photo Credit G.S. Harrington

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So far this month, I've sold the equivalent of a book a day (woo!), so thinking that if I sell 31 books in October, I'll write a short story set in the world of TETK! I've seen a few friends doing this and it's a cool idea that also may help get me writing. D :

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨ 🐉 a dragon (with a princess) 🗡️ a knight (with a plan) 👑 a palace (with a cruel king) 🏰 second pov 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-knight-s... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... [ #booksky ]

Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges.

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mere rain @mererain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OCTOBER BOOKS DAY 4 My recs so far have been non-horrifying, how about some elusive monstrosities and body mutilation? From @horrorsong.blog and Joanna C Galdone

Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch cover is yellow on black photo collage and shows a woman's torso and leg emerging from a cloud of dust, and a hand with a beam of light passing through it vertically.

Tailypo, possibly the world's scariest picture book according to my weak-ass friends who despite being adults were terrified and mad at me for showing it to them. Illustrations by Paul Galdone (I believe was the author's father). Cover shows a creature with a long tail hiding in some reeds.

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#LitHodgePodge 3: If this character could master a new hobby in one day, they would pick . . .. 😈 What hobby would Tyler pick? 😈 (art by the talented bsky.app/profile/litt... --seriously, go commission her!!)

Illustration of Tyler from The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by LittleEvilOne. Digital painting of a young skinny white man with black curly hair. He's standing in the woods looking warily to his right while holding a glowing cellphone in his left hand. The forest is lit in red and Tyler is lit in red and blue. He's wearing a t-shirt that reds, "Hide and Seek Champion" and has a picture of Bigfoot on it.

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Littleevil0ne @littleevil0ne.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Happy #PortfolioDay! (Yay for carousels!) I'm S. D. McMillan a.k.a LittleEvil0ne and I love painting women and fantasy art! Portfolio and Commission info: littleevil0ne.carrd.co Email: littleevilcomms@gmail.com #art #artsky #portfolio #myart

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Kira of the Wind (Erika McCorkle) @kiraofthewind.com · 03/10/2026

#LitHodgePodge Alright, friendos, what can this man do?

Grilled from the Good Thyme Inn books, drawn by Bear Pettigrew (Crossroad Art). Grilled is sitting on a stool and looking menacingly at the viewer. His wrists are bright green with fire and he's holding knives. He's resting his chin on one hand. He has long silver hair and is wearing a hat with a rainbow feather.

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Things Tyler Kyle shouldn't have done: 💔 Fall for straight co-host 🙃 Make-out with said co-host 🗡️ Follow fake video of dead mom to murder island 🪦 Forget about the stalker who lured him there SALE: steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil... books2read.com/u/boB9YL #indiehorror #booksky #horrorsky

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Author C B Lansdell @cblansdell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A special bundle is on Itchio now! 93 spooky books for 69 USD 🎃 itch.io/b/3904/chill...

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Me, writing a wedding speech + toast and trying to guess whether my friends who are getting married will have referenced the same Keats poems in their vows 🤣

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Natalie Kelda @nataliekelda.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

MERCH IS HERE! PAPERBACK PRE-ORDERS ARE LIVE! I'm so excited to make the pre-order for direct sprayed and hand-stamped paperbacks live! Barry of course did his best to help BREAK as much merch as possible as soon as it arrived. 💙📚

Graphic with grey background and white text: paperback pre-orders now open! Merch has arrived! An illustrated tabby cat sits in the bottom left corner.

Photo of merch items on a wooden surface. Top left, clockwise: Cyanotype print of a snowdrop. Holographic sticker of a black and white cat reading a book. Author business card in pale green with art nouveau floral motifs. A bookmark for The Turbulent Appearance of Brise Collier with two women reaching towards one another. An a6 art card with a painting of a woman carrying another.

Black and white cat lying on top of bookmarks and art cards

Graphic similar to the first slide with white text: all pre-orders come with merch! pre-order hand-stamped and sprayed edge paperbacks on nataliekelda.co.uk/shop Go preorder today! Drawn tabby cat sits in bottom left corner of the graphic.

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William Beck @thatwilliambeck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks and good luck with the tour! Familiar Territory is MG fantasy horror that I'd best describe as Homeward Bound with spooky vibes! With 3 Familiars embarking on a quest to find their lost witch. books2read.com/u/4j8ZX2

Promo cover for Familiar Territory depicting the book cover (the silhouette of a cat, dog & raven staring up to the moon where the silhouette of a witch zooms by) on a tablet, hovering over a moody enchanted night sky. The accompanying text reads Familiar Territory. When it comes to family, magic is never far behind. Available now

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C. J. Daley 👻 Horror & Crime Thriller author @cjdaleywrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks! Welcome to Cemetery is a police procedural with dark disappearances & murders for a crime thriller/horror feel Missing teens✔️ Bloodless bodies✔️ Kidnappings✔️ Corruption✔️ Deceit✔️ Will the investigation get off the ground at this rate? On KU! books2read.com/u/b5Kn0l

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Peter Rosch @peterrosch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Enjoy the tour, brother! In the year that WTDCD has been out, the paperback has never been discounted. THAT CHANGES on 10/06 and 10/07!!. 30% OFF for the first time ever. Or so they tell me. More than a few people have added it to their spooky season TBR this year too. Check it out! a.co/d/09yMWuZC

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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks so much Gabino. Phengaris, my eco-horror novella, available at payhip.com/b/58paC Parch Marks, featuring future archaeology, heritage crime and vengeful Bronze Age Gods, available here: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p... #FridayReads (Promotional image by @marywyrd.bsky.social)

Anna Orridge
Eco horror - Phengaris
Cli Fi - Parch Marks.

Phengaris has a cover image of a, butterfly made of rusted parts

Parch Marks features markings of ferns on dried earth.

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M.H.Urban - Horror Author @mhurban.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hi, Gabino. I hope you're having fun We've finally stepped into October. What better way to celebrate than with a ghost story? Trapped in Amber mybook.to/TrappedInAmber #FridayReads #writerslift

Trapped in Amber book cover and tags.
Up to bottom: ghost story; supernatural thriller, POV multiple; cozy horror; fast-paced mystery; character-driven

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thank you everyone who's picked up TETK already this month!!! Really appreciate it--definitely the boost I needed! For anyone who missed it, it's on sale here: steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil... and here: books2read.com/u/boB9YL #indiehorror #transhorror #transauthor #indiebooks #sale

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#LitHodepodge 2: Hmmmmm. At home? Prooobably Twin Peaks, Widow's Bay, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but then that really depends on the definition of "at home." 🤣 My MC would probably much rather chill in Tales From the Riverbank or something equally wholesome & relaxing

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T(errifying) C(ryptid) Parker (she/her) @tcparker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks Gabino! Since it's October and Creepy Season has officially begun, I'd love more people to read THE TOMMY. It's a short (novelette-length) Backrooms-ish liminal horror set in a very weird hospital... and I scared myself writing it payhip.com/b/Sk5l0

Cover of THE TOMMY against a yellow Backrooms background showing deserted yellow corridors

Text reads:

want a quick horror read with backrooms vibes?
try this

99p/99c ALL OCTOBER

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. Repost this and let us know what to repost for you. I’m in France on tour, so I’m sharing the novel that launched my career here. Oh, and it’s only $1.99 for Hispanic Heritage Month! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0D8...

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Rien Gray @riengray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The companies making GenAI (that does not and cannot have any actual intellect) robbed me and a bunch of my friends so their shill of a product can pretend to be a person and hollow out vital pieces of human society and our economy. Everything past that is fruit of the poisonous tree. So... yeah.

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David Demchuk 👻 (he/him) 📚 @daviddemchuk.com · 02/10/2026

Very pleased that The Butcher’s Daughter has made the shortlist for the Killick Capital Fiction Prize. Newfoundland, beware: the shortlistee readings are Thursday, October 29th at 7 p.m. at the Bannerman Brewing Company, and the Prize Ceremony is Friday, October 30th at 7 p.m.

The shortlist for the Killick Capital Fiction Prize, part of the 30th annual Newfoundland and Labrador book awards, presented by writers NL: The Beltane Massacre, by Ray Critch; Vigil, stories by Susie Taylor; And the Butcher’s Daughter, by David Demchuk and Corinne Leigh Clark.

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Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I have been assaulted sitting quietly on the bus going to work, fully clothed and completely sober. I had a man follow me off a grey hound bus when I was commuting ti university insisting I come to hos house, I was clothed and sober. I hid in the bathroom for 30 mins hoping he left the station.

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Aud Connelly: transcribing #Dogwood3 (78.1/95k) @audconnelly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Y'all wild for doing this and I appreciate that about you.😭♥️ To put it into my perspective, this is not only more than WINGS and CONSORT preorders combined, it's 1 away from being DOUBLE.

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You ever think, what I want isn't to be a successful author. That would be cool, but no. What I want is a UBI that lets me write full-time. I'd be unstoppable.

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Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🖤HORROR WITH HEART🖤 8 stories & a fantasy trilogy 🎃ONLY $5 IN OCTOBER🎃 ⚔️The Maer Cycle deluxe illustrated trilogy 🧟‍♀️Ghoul Girls: 5 stories of lesbian necromance 🌲First Light: a ghoul's solstice celebration 🪻Bog Flower: a swamp witch eggfic 🧙Griselda: witchy man-murder itch.io/s/202717/hor...

Horror with Heart sale showing The Maer Cycle, Ghoul Girls, First Light, Bog Flower, and Griselda by Dani Finn for $5 on itch.io

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Nefarious Bat Press @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Want a quick horror read with Backrooms vibes this creepy season? Try @tcparker.bsky.social's liminal horror novelette THE TOMMY - 99p/99c everywhere all October amzn.eu/d/0eB9lJc8

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Monthly Trans Creators Boost! - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for works to read and share. - Follow new creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #TransSky #WriteSky

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Maxime Jaz🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @maximejaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Non-binary trans masc here. My steamy queer romances with a dash of darkness are all on KU. I have a vampire short story in the trans masc anthology Boy Meat. My novelette Eros is free until 3rd October. ❤️🌈🔥

on black and blood spatter background, top left in greyscale a bampire's mouth in a small smile, bottom left a man's exposed throat, lips turned upwards, lace shirt collar. In gothic white letters top to bottom Lux Aeterna by Maxime Jaz, Human/vampire, Blood drinking, boycunt feast

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Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Here's where you can get all of my current work, most of them free. I'm aiming to get two new short stories out this month so give me a follow! vincentlore.itch.io

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Kaya Skovdatter 🏳️‍⚧️ (She/They) @gothgreenwitch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Nonbinary trans, neurodivergent, disabled Canadian here! Appropriately enough for the October monthly boost, most of my work is concerned with ghosts and monsters. Serialized and standalones. Sometimes SFW, usually NSFW. :) Mostly available through: huldrahouse.com huldrahouse.itch.io

Cover image of a novella called The River Devours the Moon, written by Kaya Skovdatter. A woman's head floats underwater in the upper half of the image. Her eyes closed and a bubble escaping from her open lips, her hair drifting in wispy strands. The entire image is washed blue, and light glows up illuminating her face, from the lower half of the image. The title is overlaid against the cover image, its text matte white. At the top of the image is a string of blurb text that reads: "Elegant. Surreal. Some of Kaya's best work." - A.G.A. Wilmot, author of Withered

Cover image of a book called The Collected Hulderotica Year One, written by Kaya Skovdatter. Background is a figure in a shadowed figure in a scarf and dress, holding an umbrella. Their face too is covered in shadow, only two unnerving points of light shining out of that darkness. Around the figure is a lush, overgrown forest painted in a variety of greens, and before them is a rock-edged forest pool with the figure's reflection cast in its green-tinged surface. The title is overlaid against the cover image, its text matte white.

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Tiernan Blanchard is in SPOOKY MODE @gaycannibalism.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm in this bundle of trans horror fiction and games, available only in October! itch.io/b/3876/we-ha...

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We Have Always Been in the Darkness by Rob MacWolf and 36 others

We Have Always Been in the Darkness: 37 items for $10.00

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Becky Allen @allreb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Aaaand it's out in the universe, here we go. Ten years after my first book came out, the story of how it flopped and what came after (spoiler: very little). Not exactly a juicy tell-all -- there was nothing juicy to tell -- but pretty freaking candid. www.beckyallenbooks.com/2026/10/01/o...

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On failure

It’s October of 2026. That means it is now the tenth anniversary of Bound by Blood and Sand being published… and I think enough time has passed to talk about one of the big things in publishing (an…

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Cat Rector @catrector.com · 01/10/2026

HEY HALIFAX READERS Booktoberfest is THIS SATURDAY and we want to see you there! 70+ authors of all genres are selling and signing books, you can attend workshops and readings, and you can support your local library at the same time Bring a friend, tell your book club, come visit us!

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Booktoberfest 2026. 70+ Nova Scotian authors and publishers. Free Writing workshops and readings. Halifax Central Library. Saturday October 3 11-3pm.

A list of the 70+ local authors that are attending the event

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Steve Hugh Westenra 🕷️🧛‍♂️🏳️‍⚧️📚✒️ @stevewestenra.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle is ON SALE for Hallowe'en! A failed actor turned cryptid-hunting YouTuber follows a video of his vanished mom to an isolated island in the Canadian wilderness steve-westenra.itch.io/the-erstwhil... #transauthor #indiehorror #horrorbooks #sale #booksale #queerhorror

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Elliott Gish @elliottgish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happening this month!

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Jamedi @jamreads.com · 01/10/2026

Wickhills, by @premeemohamed.com (pub by @torbooks.bsky.social) is a brilliant and weird novel, a story that scales from "low fantasy espionage" into "okay, just let the author cook) in the best of the senses. I can't recommend it enough, but here's a review: jamreads.com/reviews/wick... 💙📚

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JamReads - Making your TBR closer to infinite

In JamReads you will find content about books, and why you should read them more. This content may include reviews, interviews and occasionally, some news of the literary world

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